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: a young college-educated adult who is employed in a well-paying profession and who lives and works in or near a large city
Examples of yuppie in a Sentence
Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.
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But to anyone who was a child during the late Eighties — anyone who had no choice but to endure peak yuppie culture — Chuck Norris was not funny.
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John Devore, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
With nods to films of the samurai and shoot-em-up genres, Beetz gives the physical performance of a lifetime, wielding swords and firing guns at a building full of evil yuppies.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
Her roommate, back from her yuppie adventuring, walks in and joins the party.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
Zukin already described how Manhattan real estate brokers had marketed them to gentrifying SoHo yuppies in the early 1980s.
—Conrad Kickert, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
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John Devore, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
With nods to films of the samurai and shoot-em-up genres, Beetz gives the physical performance of a lifetime, wielding swords and firing guns at a building full of evil yuppies.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
Her roommate, back from her yuppie adventuring, walks in and joins the party.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
Zukin already described how Manhattan real estate brokers had marketed them to gentrifying SoHo yuppies in the early 1980s.
—Conrad Kickert, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Yuppie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yuppie. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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